Selected Works 2019

Braeden Martel Selected Works

I am currently a third year student at the McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury, ON. Born in a small, northern town, I moved to Sudbury to pursue my interest in architecture. I enjoy placing myself in situations that force me to grow and am always seeking opportunities to learn from skilled and passionate individuals. In my free time I enjoy awkwardly photographing building details, spending too much time outdoors, and obsessively trying to produce the best cup of coffee possible.

Braeden Martel 1 705 920 3723 8-120 Larch Street Sudbury, ON P3E 1C2

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Work Experience Designer | Formid February 2018 - September 2018

• Create architectural drawings • Create graphics and media for firm projects

Co-Op Intern | Vision Build Inc. May 2017 - August 2017

• Trained under veteran carpenter/cabinet maker • Worked from drawings to construct custom millwork • Photographing local projects for respective firms

Architectural Photographer Freelance

Education McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON | 2016 - to date Laurentian University Sudbury, ON | 2014 - 2016

Studying to complete a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) degree from Laurentian University.

One year studying engineering + One general year.

Volunteer Experience Co-founder | TheTelegraph.ca September 2018 - Present Designer | NOSA August 2016 - August 2017

• Founded a website for McEwen Arch.

Students • Designed and produced articles + graphics • Aided the local OAA chapter in the design, build and documentation of the installation for Up Here Festival

Mentor | Lasalle Secondary School • Mentored the robotics team while 2014 & 2015 FIRST Robotics Seasons balancing University education and employment

Interests Woodworking Film & Editing

Photography Model Making

Coffee Graphic Design

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Northern Child Care Center

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Bentwood Music Pavilion

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Ramsey Lake Ice Station

Jaajokki Light Sculptures

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Mountainside Library

Bentwood Studies

Bergen Wood Festival

Northern Child Care Center Individual Studio Project Year 3 Skills

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Left: A rendered site plan drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

A low lying building sits atop a piled foundation. It’s form in plan follows the river while also protecting the children from the sites conditions and opens up onto the park. The building emerges from the site, protecting and encouraging outdoor play even during harsh winter months.

Right: Building floor plan with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Below: Building cross-section with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

The sectional concept allows a covered private “backyard” as well as a shared “front yard” encouraging a connection to nature and outdoor play. The entire building sits atop a wood decking to ensure outdoor play in the winter while protecting the children from the contaminated site below.

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Photos of Physical Model

Mountain Side Library Individual Studio Project Year 2 Skills

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Below: Building floor plan drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Careful site analysis encouraged a fractured library approach to emphasize the site’s assets. The stilted library attracts users and provides an unseen view of the entire park while it’s stilted nests provide unprecedented reading rooms scattered around the site.

Each nest was sculpted to provide a unique perspective of the sites features.

From the trails at Rotary Park a building and it’s accompanying “nests� are seen emerging from the mountainside. A stilted library acts as an intersection in the trails acting as the sole destination prolonging users stay in the park.

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Left: Exterior perspective render, Communicating main library building and it’s relation to the scattered “reading nests” throughout the landscape. Drawn using Rhino, V-Ray, and Photoshop.

Below: Building cross-section with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

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Left: Three building elevations complete with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Revit, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

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Photos of Physical Model

Bentwood Music Pavilion Individual Studio Project Year 1 Skills

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Sited on a greenway opposite to a proposed arts centre and the downtown core, curved panels emerge from the ground creating an expressionist space for music. The curved panels joining to form one space was inspired by music which is composed of multiple notes creating one song. The pavilions small maximum footprint encouraged one half of the structure to be opened up allowing for a new footprint to be determined by the reach of the music.

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Below: Pavilion cross-section drawn at first by-hand, then scanned and re-drawn in Illustrator.

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Photos of Physical Model

Ramsey Lake Ice Station Group Design + Build Studio Year 1 Skills

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The ice stations design and scale allowed for new experiences as one approached the structure.

From afar, the horizon is interrupted by a tall wooden ribbon, then on approach the fold invites one in to finally experience a moment of verticality through the oculus.

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Photos of Physical Model

Photos of Built Structure

From this, the group decided to create a ribbon of wood curving in plan and folding in on itself to provide an opening. The 2x2 members were left 98% untouched and tied together using twine to allow for re-use.

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The design process began with the challenge of using only 2x2 lumber in a sustainable fashion.

The site provided an incredible horizon, the group wanted to break that horizon line and encourage the skaters to look up into the sky.

Jaajokki Light Sculptures Award: People’s Choice Award Group of 3 | Design + Build Built Competition Proposal Skills

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Proposed for the second annual Nuit Blanche at the McEwen School of Architecture, these light sculptures were designed to attract users to a normally dark area of the school. Textured acrylic sheets were exposed to heat and manually bent into shape creating a self-supporting sculpture. Bends were made to create moments within the sculpture allowing for new discoveries as one explored the sculptures. The installation was named Jaajoki which means “frozen river� in Finnish, due to the sculptures resemblance to ice.

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Photos of Built Installation

Bergen Wood Festival Group Design + Build International Competition Skills

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Left: Installation construction drawing with scale person drawn using Rhinoceros, Revit, Illustrator, and Photoshop for competition proposal.

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Photo of Built Installation

A group of 6 students were selected to represent the McEwen School of Architecture at the Bergen International Wood Festival in Norway. The 6 students broke into two groups to create two separate wood installations. The installation “Canopy� was designed using a simple system of repeating polygons which would then be increasingly altered to create a undulating ribbon of wood.

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Photos of Built Installation

Limited to 2x2’s, the group created a curve in plan using simple techniques. Canopy flowed up from the ground providing a bench for sitting and laying. The undulating ribbon peaked and dipped to create nooks for sitting

Bent Wood Studies Independent Study Skills

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Aurora Borealis First Year Studio Project

Interest in wood bending began during a first year studio project. The task was to take a mostly 2D object, and with a simple technique make it 3D, then create a spatial piece. Thin pieces of basswood were cut into parallelograms, then soaked in hot water and bent into unique curves.

The curves were then fastened together with a thin bead of glue, creating a light and spatial ribbon of wood. The piece sat lightly, and with the lightest touch would begin to shake and “dance� as the piece reacted to the applied force, finally finding its balance and coming to a rest.

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Double-Bent Canoe Paddle

Second Year Studio Project

This canoe paddle was designed and fabricated in a second year studio course. The piece is made of layered thin pieces of black cherry and white ash hardwoods. Double-bent canoe paddles allow a more efficient paddle stroke. To achieve this paddle, a unique technique of full-length glue-lamination was employed, allowing the layers of the canoe paddle to reveal themselves as the shaft sculpted down into the blade.

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Thank you for taking the time to review my portfolio of selected works.

I appreciate your consideration.

Ceiling at Rock Church, Helsinki Finland

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